Education as we know it is going to experience an extraordinary transformation throughout the current decade. This transformation will require an innovative response from both the learning content... More > industry as well the educational system that feeds it. The Future of Learning Content explores the past, present and future of the textbook industry and other learning content channels. The book provides forecasts for the transition to digital learning content and discusses how that transition is disrupting the learning content and education sectors. Additional topics covered include: 1) The history of textbooks in the U.S.; 2) The learning content industry and its different market segments in the U.S.; 3) General technology and cultural trends related to media production and consumption; 4) The rise of digital textbooks and forecasts for digital learning content adoption in the U.S.; 5) Open textbook and open educational resource (OER) projects.< Less

Volume 2033, Don Walker (orchestrator)---Doors Open Toronto
Print Wikipedia is a both a utilitarian visualization of the largest accumulation of human knowledge and a poetic gesture towards the... More > inhuman scale of big data. Michael Mandberg wrote software that parses the entirety of the English-language Wikipedia database and programmatically lays out nearly 7500 volumes, complete with covers, and then uploads them to Lulu.com for print-on-demand. Print Wikipedia draws attention to the sheer size of the encyclopedia's content and the impossibility of rendering Wikipedia as a material object in fixed form: Once a volume is printed it is already out of date. It is also a work of found poetry built on what is likely the largest appropriation ever made. As we become increasingly more dependent on information and source material on the Internet today, Mandiberg explores the accessibility of its vastness.< Less

The Open Agenda details the many habits and nuances that a beginning physics teacher needs to inculcate into students in order to teach the content. It is about the innate cultural characteristics of... More > teaching science in general, and physics in particular, that a teacher should not assume students know automatically. Good problem solving techniques and other skills can indeed to be taught if done so explicitly and repeatedly. Though written from a physics perspective, it is easily readable and applicable for the other sciences.< Less

I personally believe that an approach as CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) attempts to incorporate new teaching perspectives as a way of responding to the 21st century school claims for... More > renewed pedagogy to new educational environments in and for a globalized information society. Thus, from my point of view, this perspective is intended to help the learners and the teacher as well realize that English as a Lingua Franca will open doors to the whole world and will help learners become intercultural speakers.< Less

I personally believe that an approach as CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) attempts to incorporate new teaching perspectives as a way of responding to the 21st century school claims for... More > renewed pedagogy to new educational environments in and for a globalized information society. Thus, from my point of view, this perspective is intended to help the learners and the teacher as well realize that English as a Lingua Franca will open doors to the whole world and will help learners become intercultural speakers.< Less

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